EASTER EGGS

What are Easter eggs ? You mite probably answer “ they are huge sugar laced eggs filled with chocolates or sweets that would be hidden by elders as a surprise during Easter time”

However in technical jargon ‘Easter eggs is something different .Wikipedia now defines it in this way “An Easter egg is an unintentional hidden message joke or a feature in a object movie ,book cd,dvd web page or a computer program”

Well c the last word of the above paragraph’ computer program’ .Yeah that inspired me to do a bit of research in Easter eggs hidden in computer programs .Most people think of computer engineers as serious geeks for whom Windows is even more important than well eh… wife(sorry bad joke).Nah all of them are not like that ..at least I am not like that..Well getting back to the point many coders have put great jokes up there sleeves into their programs ..its now for us to discover them..

The first easter egg I found was present in Windows 97 .if u type “Bill Clinton” and press Shift+F7 an UK Thesaurus dialogue box comes upon screen with a synonym “I would like to see her naked” .This was at the height of Monica Lewinsky scandal. To get this joke you must set your language setting in Word 97 to UK English.

Here is another one that works in almost every version of Word. Just type “=rand(5,10)” and press enter .You l get 10 paragraphs with 5 sentences each

Open word and type anything anything.Now select whatever you hav written and press control alt-+ and see the cursor change

There are a lot of easter eggs hidden in the web Browser Mozilla Firefox too .lets see some of them type in ‘about:mozilla’ and just see the magic

Or type in ‘about:robots’ and hold ur breath …I wont say find it out yourself

or type 'about: : rights' n see for yourself

Did you know that the flight number of the plane that had hit WTC ...on
9/11 was Q33N ....Open your Notepad in ur computer and type the flight
number i.e Q33N... Increase the Font Size to 72, Change the Font to
Wingdings. U will be amazed by the findings.

Here is a cool notepad secret type “Bush hid the facts “ in a notepad file and save it .then re-open it Whew!!where has the text gone

There are many other Easter eggs in other program .for example you can cheat and win in solitaire by pressing simultaneously Alt- Shift and 2 .

However one of the best is this one .navigate to www.yahoo.com. Make sure the speakers re on .Click on the dot under the exclamation mark of the mast head of Yahoo! .Enjoy

if you find any more such hidden tricks don forget to add in the comments sections